They
need the money they spend on you for other programs for people who produce nothing but votes to keep their boss in office.
This is a disgusting move to all those who dedicated our adult lives to the defense of our country.

Armand C. Hale

Obama has placed a priority on cutting “Tri Care for
Life” out of the Congressional budget. It’s the health care program for military vets past and present. This is
his means to provide funding for things he promised during the campaign, regardless of who gets the shaft. So much for "universal
healthcare" for all Americans, eh?

On page 189 of the Congressional Budget Office report (CBO)
there is a strong recommendation to eliminate this program. In Chapter 9, page 173, option 95, the titled is; “Increase
Health Care Costs Sharing for Family Members of Active Duty Military Personnel”.

You heard me clearly. Family members of active duty military
personnel will have to pay out.

This is exactly what CBO has in store for active duty and military
retirees using Tri Care for Life (TFL) system. This source is directly from the CBO & OMB. It’s not something that
I have dreamed up. They are telling you exactly what they are going to do with your benefits.

People always look for the channel of least resistance when
it comes to cutting money out of the Federal and DOD budget. Your medical benefits are the prime target.

These people can be stupid. The Military Treatment Facilities
(MTFs) need to get patients back, to keep their doctors busy, & the hospitals from going to a clinic status. These people
from CBO would employ a means to keep retirees from using MTF facilities by charging them fees for services.

How STUPID can you be?

To all Obama lovers, change is coming. The TFL option from
CBO will not go away.

They need the money they spend on you for other programs for
people who produce nothing but votes to keep their boss in office.

The bean-countersī who, by and large, wouldnīt know and probably
never will know genuine unselfish service to our country are solely motivated by crunching numbers so that those numbers will
reflect favorably on their bosses and their bossīs causes. They have no thought to the havoc they would cause in many cases
the loss of any amount of TFL benefits. It would be an insurmountable hardship for others and to some it would truly be a
death sentence.

This is a disgusting move to all those who dedicated our adult
lives to the defense of our country.

Here is quote from a young airman after 7 yrs of military service;“My
mother is currently on Tri-Care for Life (TFL) due to the fact that my father, a 22 year decease Army retiree opted for it
when he got out. She does work; having additional employer provided health care plan. What happens when she retires? Under
this new plan for TFL with no regularly income, she would be forced to go on Medicaid, plain and simple.

To take away a benefit that was ERANED by our vets after 20+
years of defending our country is UNAMERICAN! Let us not forget that these veterans had families that stood by them during
this time. The family has been cared for and treated at the SAME Military Treatment Facility as the vet. If this is removed,
what is the next VA Benefits loss?

Do we take away from those who have suffered loss of a limb?
Be forced to live with a condition that developed while serving in the military? Take a close look at this proposed plan and
then look at yourself in the mirror.

Ask yourself is this how you honor those that have fought,
bleed, and died for your freedom? Is it?” -B.J. MCLURE-

Here it is folks. If you sit around and do nothing about it,
as they bring these options forward this coming year you will lose one of the best healthcare benefits that the eligible retired
military members have.

Iīm going to make one more statement to all of you younger
people out there who are not yet eligible for Tri-care for Life. HEALTH CARE WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME THE DOMINATING FACTOR
IN YOUR LIFE.

Remember that it will impact you big time with the utmost in
cruelty unless you are fortunate enough to die from a heart attack or get run over by a truck. If you do nothing, this is
what you will get.

The way to secure your benefits is to write to your members
of Congress and to keep writing and calling over and over again.

ONCE IS NOT ENOUGH!! Keep repeating the above statement until
you are blue in the face.

The service organizations are aware of this and will put up
a fight. They canīt do it by themselves. They need your help. I hope this makes it clear as to what you can expect if you
do nothing.

Contact your elected officials, talk radio, alternative news
media and register your strong opposition to the elimination of this program.

Armand Christopher
Hale is retired as a master sergeant in the United States Air Force, where he served 23 years and was stationed in Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. He has a degree in logistics management and plans to write a book about his service
in Qatar.

"A
man good enough to shed his blood for his country, is good enough to receive a square
deal afterwards . . ." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall
be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation."

- George Washington

GOD BLESS OUR VETERANS

Help give America's PTSD vets a stronger voice.Please join our Facebook
Cause. We are nearing 20,000 members.PTSD disabled vets should be protected under the Federal Americans with Disability
Act?

UPDATE: A couple
of years ago, I was the Operations Officer for the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center, on the waterfront between the USS ARIZONA
and the USS BOWFIN. The Commandant of the Marine Corps was the featured speaker at the dedication of the USS ARIZONA Marine
Remembrance, 10 November 2006. The National Park Service, which administers the USS ARIZONA Memorial is renovating all of
Halawa Landing, the site of the Marine Remembrance. The Regional Director of the Natl Park Service Western Region, Jon Jarvis,
stated on the local TV news that the Marine Remembrance would be removed. I challenged him on that statement and convinced
him that would not happen without a fight. I passed the word to (disabled vet and webmaster) Jack Cunningham (Americans
Working Together), who in turn asked his readership to email Jarvis that the entire USMC would make every effort to have him
relieved of his duties if he moved that monument. I was copied on many of the emails to him from Marines, their friends and
their families that it nearly fried my computer. And...it worked. In order to save his job, Jarvis backed down. The
Remembrance now belongs to the USMC and has its' rightful place in direct view of the USS ARIZONA.

I'm writing this request (again) on behalf of Jack Cunningham, a former
active duty Marine and Vietnam veteran. Although I've never actually met him in person, simply the fact that he is a
fellow Marine in need of justice, I offer to help him in any way I can. As you may know, Marines are like that.
Marines take care of Marines.

Although I probably don't know all of the facts pertaining to his case against the State
of New Jersey, I know enough to firmly believe that he should be heard in a public forum. His charges are serious.
There are claims of abuse of power and cover-up at the highest level of the State government. When such accusations
are made, I believe the leadership has no other option than to investigate. Until that is done, all that know of him
and his charges will assume that there is indeed a cover-up. Perception is a powerful thing. Hopefully it won't
be counter to the truth, whatever that may be.

If this is allowed to continue to fester, the results will be devastating
on all involved.

If this issue is not addressed soon, my only other option is to forward this to every Marine
website and public forum I can find. That option is not a good one for any of us.

"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified,
shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation."

DURING THE VIETNAM WAR, AMERICANS
LIVED AND SERVED (24/7) WITHIN VIETNAMESE VILLAGES. FEW AMERICANS
BACK HOME EVER HEARD OF THESE MILITARY TEAMS, BECAUSE THE AMERICAN
NEWS MEDIA WAS NOT INTO TELLING POSITIVE, TRUTHFUL STORIES OF
THOSE SERVING HONORABLY FOR AMERICA. IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE
SAME TODAY WITH THE AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA.

BELOW IS AN ARTICLE
ABOUT ONE OF THESE MILITARY TEAMS IN VIETNAM. THE COMBINED
ACTION PROGRAM (CAP) WAS SUCH A SUCCESS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR,
THIS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS' UNIT WAS REACTIVATED FOR OUR
CURRENT WAR ON TERRORISM.

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FACES OF THE DUC DUC REFUGEE
VILLAGE

In Vietnam, It Was Nicknamed "The Peace Corps
Volunteers With Rifles."

Anyone familiar with the Combined Action Platoons of the Vietnam War will understand what's going on here (In Iraq today).
These Marines live, work, sleep, eat and bathe in the same neighborhoods they are helping to stabilize. In doing so, they're
no longer driving in from a forward operating base, or FOB, outside the city and conducting patrols. Instead, they wake up
in the morning, plan a patrol, then walk out into the neighborhood and greet the men and women sweeping their sidewalks or
tending their shops. They're literally swarmed with children wanting a high five or a piece of chocolate. They visit schools,
markets and local infrastructure projects to see how things are going. There are no interrogations or mean faces, just a neighborly
walk through their district to check on the locals who sometimes know them by name.

Below are two links to some articles about the Marine Corps' Civil Action Programs

I served on a CAP Team in the Duc Duc Refugee Village. Sometimes, we only had four (4)
Americans in a village of 2,000 homes.

We got pulled out from our village in August 1970, because of President Nixon's troop pullout.
In March 1971, the village was burned to the ground by communist terrorists and hundreds and hundreds of innocent men, women
and children were killed, wounded and reported missing. http://www.americans-working-together.com/id222.html

Instead of the State of New Jersey giving me "reasonable disability
accommodations" for my war-service-related PTSD, the State allowed Maynard & Truland's arrogant lawyers to mock my disability
in New Jersey Supreme Court documents.

The corrupt law firm Maynard & Truland was the defendant in the
case, and I was the Plaintiff in the ethics complaint.